Diiv Live at the Majestic Theatre
Tour Dates
8/2 - Toronto, ON - The Concert Hall
8/4 - Montreal, QC - Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
8/5 - Boston, MA - Royale
8/7 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount
9/6 - Lima, Peru - Teatro Leguía
9/8 - Santiago, Chile - Club Chocolate
9/10 - Mar Del Plata, Argentina - Club TRI
9/12 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - C Complejo Art Media
9/15 - São Paulo, Brazil - Cine Joia
9/20 - Mexico City, MEX - Foro Indie Rocks!
9/21 - Guadalajara, MEX - C3 Stage
11/16 - Stockholm - Slatkyrkan
11/17 - Copenhagen - Vega
11/18 - Berlin - Astra
11/19 - Munich - Technikum
11/20 - Milan - Circolo Magnolia
11/22 - London, UK - Alexandra Palace with Fontaines D.C.
11/23 - London, UK - Alexandra Palace with Fontaines D.C.
11/25 - Madrid - Sala But
11/26 - Barcelona - Sala Apollo
11/27 - Zurich - Dynamo Saal
11/28 - Paris - Bataclan
11/29 - Gent - Vooruit
11/30 - Liège - OM
12/2 -Brighton - Chalk
12/5 - Bristol - SWX
12/6 - Birmingham - XOYO
12/7 - Glasgow - SWG3 TV Studio
12/8 - Newcastle - Newcastle University
12/9 - Manchester - The Ritz
12/10 - Southampton - Engine Rooms
12/12/ - Rennes - Antipode
12/13 - Esch - Kulturfabrik
12/14 - Köln - Kantine
12/15 - Amsterdam - Paradiso
Last night, we caught DIIV at the Majestic Theatre and were taken into a parallel world of S.E.P.I.A. Before we entered that portal, we got to see Horse Jumper of Love and Soul Body 2.
The show started with a video of a man welcoming the fans before introducing Diiv on stage. They kicked off the night with In Amber and Like Before You Were Before, a woman appeared on the screen to introduce Brown Paper Bag.
The rest of the night felt like a walking daydream in the middle of the night. Mega fans of the group have only seen them in Grand Rapids, and the rare fans who saw them back in 2016 at the Blind Pig were in trances last night.
DIIV released their massive new album, Frog in Boiling Water, last week to wide-spread critical acclaim. Today, the band announces a world tour, expanding their already announced North American dates that kick off next month. See a show near you below, and get your tickets HERE.
For the final installment of the “Frog In Boiling Water” album release, DIIV has created a conceptual film in the guise of a music video for the single “Raining on Your Pillow.” The band collaborated with experimental film directing team, TRLLM (Jak Ritger & K8 Howl) and visionary fine artist, Harry Gould Harvey IV. Together, the group translated the songs themes of military desertion, desire for solace and challenging one’s ideology into an abstract collage of high-speed videography and hand-drawings.
The film picks up threads from the ongoing saga of subterfuge established by DIIV’s album release run: Soul-Net, the evil corporation that the band has partnered with has created a secret hyper-advanced AI named S.E.P.I.A. or Spiritual Enhancement Protocol & Intelligent Augmentation. The S.E.P.I.A. program was shut down abruptly but many believe the it has escaped it’s hardware and roams the world.
“Raining on Your Pillow” is the last known transmission from S.E.P.I.A. We are put into its hyper-speed POV (which appears as ultra-slomo) as it hunts for DIIV who have now defected from Soul-Net and joined with the protest group named Freedom In A Boundless World (F.I.B.W). We watch as S.E.P.I.A. discovers “The Architect” played by Harry Gould Harvey IV and absorbs his thoughts. His drawings infect the system opening up divergent pathways.
As the film progresses, we traverse the strange landscape of contemporary life. The rare 2005 handheld high-speed camera used to capture these scenes unveils hidden moiré patterns beneath architecture and nature. The band hides out behind flickering TVs. The textures and rhythms of the song echo through highways, rivers, battleships, textiles, corridors, birds and planes.
The video concludes with an ominous yet hopeful image: S.E.P.I.A. disappears into a flickering night light, full of all the complex and contradictory images that make modern life so confusing. But, with the understanding that by living with the mess, looking beneath or in-between, we can begin to uncover the cognitive maps that hold together our existence.
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